Patents by Inventor Maxwell R. Porter

Maxwell R. Porter has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method of and apparatus for wiping hot dipped metal coated wire or strip
    Patent number: 4207362
    Abstract: A method of wiping hot dipped metal coated wire or strip, and an apparatus for performing the method, involving drawing the wire or strip upwardly from a bath of molten metal through a wiping bed located at the point of emergence from the bath, with an interference device being positioned adjacent the wire or strip below the surface of the molten bath such as to restrict the lamella flow of molten metal entrained by the moving wire or strip. The interference device wholly or partly surrounds the wire or strip and is located below the wiping bed, which bed in turn may be laterally confined or unconfined. The interference device may be of any convenient configuration such as in the form of a horizontally disposed flat plate provided with one or more slots, grooves or other apertures through which the wire or strip passes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1980
    Assignee: Australian Wire Industries Proprietary Limited
    Inventors: Maxwell R. Porter, Jack P. Sciffer, Zigmunt P. Adamiak, Alexander Dim